Python 123 introduction

[John Salerno]

skip at pobox.com wrote:
>     dakman> This is great! A excellent tutorial for somone who has prior
>     dakman> experience in programming and is starting out in python. My
>     dakman> friend keeps wanting me to teach him python, I think this would
>     dakman> be the perfect link for him.
> 
> I'm not trying to minimize Jeremy's efforts in any way, but how is his
> tutorial a significant improvement over the original
> (http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/)?
> 
> Skip

well, not to minimize the efforts of guido's tutorial, but sometimes it 
seems less of a tutorial and more of a summary of python's features, so 
it never hurts to have things explained in a different way...